#063 - Steven Barrett - Two-Tier Justice and the Collapse of British Law

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Steven Barrett is a leading UK barrister, legal writer, and constitutional expert who has become one of the sharpest critics of Britain’s bloated, dysfunctional legal system.

In this interview, Steven lays out how the rule of law in Britain has been quietly hollowed out by bad legislation, unelected regulators like Ofcom, and a political class addicted to complexity and control. We discuss the rise of a two-tier justice system, the explosion of “law inflation,” and how vague, unreadable rules are being used to censor speech, shield the powerful, and trap ordinary people. Steven explains why British civil justice is no longer accessible to most citizens, how legal bureaucracy has replaced common sense, and why the UK's constitutional structure is now in crisis.

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0:00.0	It's back to this idea of how many times can you hit somebody with a trolley in a supermarket before, you know, you die.
0:06.0	Yeah.
0:07.0	And that's where the country is right now.
0:09.0	You know, we got hit by a trolley and we all said sorry.
0:12.0	We were well past that stage.
0:14.0	We've got hit by a trolley and we've tutted.
0:17.0	We've got hit by a trolley and we've loudly cleared our throats.
0:22.1	We just got hit by a trolley again and we've remained deathly still and silent.
0:26.9	I don't think there are many more stages that that trolley can hit us before we all just know.
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